carbon storage

Our Work

The Institute has been working on carbon storage for over 15 years, exploring the control of CO₂ in subsurface saline aquifers. We have built up considerable expertise on the dynamics of CO₂ plumes moving through layered permeable rocks and on the various mechanics which control the trapping of CO₂ in the subsurface, including structural, capillary and dissolution.

There is a large group of researchers exploring some of the fundamental controls of CO₂ migration and working on interpreting field data from active CO₂ sequestration projects using these models. Ongoing work focuses on the dynamics of CO₂ in heterogeneous and permeable rocks, with direct relevance to several reservoirs presently being explored for carbon storage.